I was away on business for a few days (and only for that
period did I ask that everything should be sent to Geneva;
now please send everything again—including the booklet—
to Sörenberg).

On my arrival I found your letter about Rolland’s
articles.[1] I am terribly worried about your not having received
them. I sent them to you by letter post two weeks ago, if
not more. I have not had any cases before this of
unregistered letters being lost in Switzerland. Could there be some
mistake? Perhaps someone has received these articles in
your absence? Write about this, please. If the answer is that
there was not, and could not have been any mistake, and
if you do not have the articles, I will naturally do
everything possible to get them for you (if I have lost them).
I shall either buy this issue, or (if it has been sold out) get
it from the library and make a complete copy for you. I am
very sorry, and please write to me as soon as possible how
matters stand. If you require a copy, how soon? Write
frankly.

For some reason I have stopped receiving Zhizn. Is there
no exchange? Would you make an inquiry? And what about
Vperyod[2]? What news is there of the O.C.
miscellany[3]
and the Bund publications? Kommunist No. 1–2 has
appeared.[4]This is a fact.

Notes

[1]A reference to Romain Holland’s articles in Journal de
Genève from August to October 1914. The French Government held
up the re-issue of these articles, and they were published only
in 1915 in the collection, Romain Rolland, Au-dessus de la m&ehat;lée.
Paris. Paul Ollendorff; Neuch&ahat;tel, Attinger Frères, 1915.

[2]Vperyod (Forward)—a periodical of the Vperyod group, published
in Geneva from August 25,1915 (No. 1) to February 1,1917 (No. 6).
Among those who took part in the publication were A. V.
Lunacharsky (A. Voinov), P. I. Lebedev (V. Polyansky), and
D. Z. Manuilsky (I. Bezrabotny).

[3]A reference to the miscellany The International and the War
No. 1, issued by the Secretariat Abroad of the Organising
Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. in 1915.

[4]The magazine Kommunist was founded by Lenin and published
by the editorial board of Sotsial-Demokrat jointly with G. L.
Pyatakov and Yevgenia Bosch, who financed the publication. N. I.
Bukharin was also on the editorial board. Only one (double) issue
appeared. It carried Lenin’s articles “The Collapse of the Second
International”, “The Voice of an Honest French Socialist”, and
“Imperialism and Socialism in Italy”.

Lenin expected to turn the magazine into an organ of the
Left-wing Social-Democrats, but serious differences soon developed
between the Sotsial-Demokrat Editorial Board and Bukharin,
Pyatakov and Bosch, which were aggravated after the appearance
of the first issue.